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The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation carries essential information on early stages of the Universe such as the cosmic inflation, forming cosmological structures through gravitational lensing, and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 E. Carretti , C. Baccigalupi

We quantify the contamination from polarized diffuse Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emissions to the B-modes of the CMB anisotropies on the degree angular scale, using data from the Planck and WMAP satellites. We compute power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 N. Krachmalnicoff , C. Baccigalupi , J. Aumont , M. Bersanelli , A. Mennella

Measuring the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation field is one of the main goals in modern cosmology. However, the so called $B$-mode polarisation can be generated by different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao

We report on our knowledge of Galactic foregrounds, as well as on how a CMB satellite mission aiming at detecting a primordial B-mode signal (CMBPol) will contribute to improving it. We review the observational and analysis techniques used…

One of the primary challenges facing upcoming CMB polarization experiments aiming to measure the inflationary B-mode signal is the removal of polarized foregrounds. The thermal dust foreground is often modeled as a single modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Danielle Sponseller , Alan Kogut

Some theoretical models for the early Universe predict a spike-type enhancement in the primordial power spectrum on a small scale, which would result in forming early-formed dark matter halos~(EFHs). Some recent studies have claimed to have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Katsuya T. Abe , Hiroyuki Tashiro

We compute the spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization induced by non-linear effects in the Compton interactions between CMB photons and cold intergalactic electrons. This signal is of the $y$-type and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sebastien Renaux-Petel , Christian Fidler , Cyril Pitrou , Guido W. Pettinari

Electron scattering induces a polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal measured in the direction of a galaxy cluster due to the presence of a quadrupole component in the CMB temperature distribution. Measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Y. Sazonov , R. A. Sunyaev

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

Recent satellite observations have revealed significant anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, a phenomenon that had previously been detected but received limited attention due to its subtlety. With the advent of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-10 S. Davood Sadatian , Amir Sabouri , Zahra Davari

In cosmology, the quest for primordial $B$-modes in cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations has highlighted the critical need for a refined model of the Galactic dust foreground. We investigate diffusion-based modeling of the dust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 David Heurtel-Depeiges , Blakesley Burkhart , Ruben Ohana , Bruno Régaldo-Saint Blancard

Abreg: We investigate the impact of polarized foreground emission on the performances of future CMB experiments in measuring the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. We design a component separation pipeline, based on the Smica method, aimed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marc Betoule , E. Pierpaoli , J. Delabrouille , M. Le Jeune , Jean-François Cardoso

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

The characterization of the dust polarization foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a necessary step towards the detection of the B-mode signal associated with primordial gravitational waves. We present a method to simulate…

Anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have proven to be a very powerful tool to constrain dark matter annihilation at the epoch of recombination. However, CMB constraints are currently derived using a number of reasonable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Silvia Galli , Tracy R. Slatyer , Marcos Valdes , Fabio Iocco

The B-Mode of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP) promises to detect the gravitational wave background left by Inflation and explore this very early period of the Universe. In spite of its importance, however, the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Carretti

Spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer the possibility of probing processes which occurred during the evolution of our Universe going back up to Z$\simeq 10^7$. Unfortunately all the attempts so far carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Giorgio Sironi

In this paper, I investigate a local effect of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in clusters of galaxies, due to the Thomson scattering of the anisotropic radiation. A local anisotropy of the CMB is produced by some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marina Gibilisco

We explore the microwave anisotropies at large angular scales produced by the emission from cold and large dust grains, expected to exist in the outer parts of the Solar System, using a simple toy model for this diuse emission. Its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Maris , C. Burigana , A. Gruppuso , F. Finelli , J. M. Diego